Bethany Community Church

Teacher: Pastor Richard Dahlstrom, October 18, 2009.

Discussion Questions:
Nancy Eckardt

In Acts 20, we find Paul moving from one place to another, not always to where he expected, and not always without risk to his life, but with the sole purpose of testifying to the gospel of the grace of God. And we are challenged to do the same.

1. How have you seen movement or transformation in your own life? Where do you see it now?

2. Can you think of how movement in your heart has caused movement vocationally or geographically or in some other more visible way?

3. Can you think of a time when God moved you into a place that didn’t seem familiar to you, but in retrospect was right where you belonged? What were some key steps in the process of coming to accept how God was using you?

4. Do you consider yourself quick to stay or quick to go? How have you been challenged outside your tendency one way or another, and what has been the result of that?

5. “Movement and journey are intended to be the ongoing story of our lives.” How does that sit with you? What is appealing about looking at life this way? What is unappealing?

6. How have you experienced God’s gifts in the midst of overwhelming challenges?

7. What areas of your life and experience right now seem foreign to you?

8. Acts 20:24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.” What does letting go of one’s life as Paul does here look like for you?

9. What does the way of death look like for you? To what might God be calling you to die, in order to step into resurrection life on the other side?

10. Who is accompanying you on your way of death? How do they help you? How do they hinder you?